YANCEY COUNTY, NC - CEMETERIES - Cooper Cemetery aka Old Bennett Cemetery
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From Horton Hill Road, turn onto Wolf Mountain Road.  Near the end of this 
road turn right onto an old farm road, follow this road about ½ mile to where 
road turns off to the left. From here walk about ¼ mile and turn left on a 
trail and follow this about ¼ mile to cemetery.  Very steep.
Condition:  Poor, fence is down and grown up in bushes.

SURNAMES:  BENNETT, COOPER, JOHNSON, PETERSON,

1.  Jeff Peterson, 1924 - 1925
2.  Martha Cooper, 1858 - 1942, (1-22-1858 -  9-2-1942) (W/o # 3 -
    Married March 18, 1877) (D/o Mack & Polly Williams Bennett)
3.  John Cooper, 1857 - 1947, (1-20-1857 -  3-28-1947, 
    S/o Joel & Rebecca Ramsey Cooper)
4.  Elizabeth  Johnson, 10-31-1851 - 4-12-1947, W/o # 5,
    (dob on death certificate states 10-1-1850 -  
    D/o Mark & Polly Williams Bennett)
5.  Claborn Johnson, 2-14-1861 - 2-20-1940
6.  M. C. Bennett, 12-25-1825 - 12-15-1913
7.  Mack Cooper, 1880 - 1954, (2-24-1880 - 11-15-1954. 
    S/o John & Martha Bennett Cooper)
Several graves marked with fieldstone.
(Notes in parentheses are from death records or other sources)

2nd cemetery located farther up the ridge:
1.  Bertha Tipton, 3-18-1895 - 8-17-1897
2.  Edy Tipton, 6-17-1839 - 8-9-1889
3.  Joseph Tipton, 11-29-1849 - 12-15-1897
4.  Brown Cooper, 8-14-1836 - 4-11-1900 - 63 years

   Several unmarked graves.


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